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Tumor-Immunology

Head: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sieghart Sopper

The immune system is an effective control system in the detection and elimination of malignant cells (immunosurveillance of tumors). In the phase of tumor progression, however, this mechanism fails. The tumor immunology team is therefore concerned with the interaction between the immune system and the tumor and examines the changes caused by cancer and tumor therapy. Based on these findings, different approaches are developed to eliminate negative regulators and to strengthen effector functions against the tumor.

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The Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute has the goal to develope new cancer therapy concepts and to get them to clinical use. This ambitious achievement underlines the creative optimism wich inspires the whole initiative.